A Pirate's Fury - RELEASED!

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A Pirate's Fury - RELEASED!

Post by Montycarlo » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:19 am

Official Website for A Pirate's Fury
A Pirate's Fury! Vote 5 Please!
Game Released!
NOTE: If you experience lag, or fall through platforms, then follow this link:
The 'No-Sound' version, use this if you experience lag!
This is the No-sound version. If you experienced lag on the version with sound, this is the one for you. It doesn't have the sound clips in the library, meaning it's not on call, so there is 1.5 MB less on call each frame.

If you are still experiencing lag, disable the background with Menu->Options, if the background is already disabled, close down any background applications (Media player, Games..)


It seems that I won't achieve sponsorship, merely because the sprites are stolen.

Out of all the sponsors I contacted, 70% of them picked up on how I mentioned that the sprites were stolen in my original email, most of the remaining 30% rejected the game because of it's file size, due to complications that would blow their bandwidth usage for the month through the roof. Of those who did not reject the game and kept in contact with me, pursued me to make an offer, 1 made an outstanding offer. I talked with him over messenger this morning about the size issue and payment details. I figured out that he didn't realize that the sprites were stolen and this was not an original game, so I told him, because you cannot keep such details away from such parties. He immediately withdrew his offer, and made the suggestion (Just like a few other sponsors have) to re-skin the game and then he will happily go through with sponsorship. With such a large game, doing so would be a mountainous task that I'm not willing to commit myself to nor do I have the skill to produce art of that quality. So, sponsorship will not occur for "A Pirate's Fury", I'm going to have to resort to my backup plan.

The plan is to involve in-game and website advertisements.

However these advertisements generally do not produce much returns, so I'm going to have to increase the amount of them in the game (An ad will appear every 5 map changes) and rely on enough views to return an adequate amount.

With no market apart from these in-game advertisements, I feel I should step away from making any more Maplestory games, and copyrighted material in general.
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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Gillian » Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:24 am

Nice, I'd like to play the game when you release it :]

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Montycarlo » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:36 am

Is it working for you?
I have no idea why it's not working on my side.
I've taken a look at the webpage source and found a couple of problems. I've pm'ed you, Gillian.

Gillian got it working! :D
Thanks Gillian!

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Pepsi » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:02 pm

Gillian is the best =D

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by jonlin » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:08 pm

well gillian has got to be good with html/php or w/e he made this site after all, didnt he?

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by sfdude13 » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:21 pm

I believe that's the exact same person XD

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by jonlin » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:54 pm

just a higher level one is the second i think =p

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by darkcarmy1 » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:37 pm

plz i beg u i want to play :)

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by jonlin » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:51 pm

he said in the other topic he is just looking for a sponsor.

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by darkcarmy1 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:52 am

i know i just want to try it out

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by sfdude13 » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:07 am

What exactly do you mean by sponsor again? Are you just trying to look for a website to put the game on? or is it something bigger?

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Montycarlo » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:10 am

sfdude13 wrote:What exactly do you mean by sponsor again? Are you just trying to look for a website to put the game on? or is it something bigger?
A sponsor is a game website that pays me money for some space in the game itself, like after it loads and on the menu. Usually the game website pays the developer X amount of money to put their logo after the game loads, and a button on the menu that will link to their website, which will produce ad revenue for them, eventually giving them some cash return and profit.

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by jonlin » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:28 am

So, you are looking for someone to advertize in your game so you can get money from them?
Also, is that money just for like w/e, or is it for helping host the game?

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Montycarlo » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:56 am

jonlin wrote:So, you are looking for someone to advertize in your game so you can get money from them?
Also, is that money just for like w/e, or is it for helping host the game?

Both.

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Pepsi » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:27 am

Any luck with some one offering

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Montycarlo » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:44 am

Pepsi wrote:Any luck with some one offering

No more offers, just more interest.
What price range are you thinking in your head for a exclusive sponsorship? I am extremely interested if we can figure out a comfortable price for both of us.
The game looks good. How much are you asking for sponsorship?
Looks good, Can we look at a demo?
...If you get some good offers, I'll see if I can counter...
However,
First of all, if you really made this game yourself within a 6 month
period, its VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE!! The graphics are nice and the gameplay
seems to be very smooth and entertaining.
I just hope none of the graphics were stolen from Maplestory.
I thought I made it clear in my original email I sent out to all the sponsors that the sprites were extracted from Maplestory, and that I did not create them. I'm not sure if the sponsors that are interested above realize this, So I'll need to tell them about it. Of course there are legal issues that some people won't step into, and so some websites have already said "No, re-skin it, and then we'll talk". If reality comes to the worst I'll follow my backup plan, which includes in-game and website advertisements, I just hope they will generate enough returns.

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Pepsi » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:54 am

The problem is maplestory`s spirte sheet is the easiest to create flash games with

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by rayzote » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:38 pm

oigan i speak spanish pero nose ustedes pero yo quiero jugar ese juego
P.S.D:This traduscanlo

montycarlo cuando bas a terminar el juego esta chilo te felicito pero aqui algunos creo que todos quieren jugar esta juego.
ok
oye como cuando bas a terminar esta chilo en juego y oye tienes que hablar con alguien para que te aga job o ya apareses asi con todos los poderes ay SP y AP? ok cuidate.
P.S.D: lo siento por estar enfadandote jijijijiiji
i have 1 gunslinger y boy a estar jugando con el .
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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Montycarlo » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:58 pm

rayzote wrote:oigan i speak spanish pero nose ustedes pero yo quiero jugar ese juego
P.S.D:This traduscanlo

montycarlo cuando bas a terminar el juego esta chilo te felicito pero aqui algunos creo que todos quieren jugar esta juego.

No yo no hablo español, que te dijo eso?
Estoy utilizando Google traductor.

Gracias por su interés en mi juego :]

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Re: A Pirate's Fury

Post by Pepsi » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:17 pm

Translation if possible please

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